Judge Cannon appears skeptical of Trump argument Smith was illegally appointed: Live

A newspaper in Miami, Florida is under fire after running several pro-Trump political ads filled with racial slurs.

The quote was taken from a 1985 hearing in which then-Senator Biden quoted racist remarks made by a state legislator during a redistricting process in Louisiana. At the time, Biden was questioning William Bradford Reynolds, a nominee for deputy attorney general, who oversaw the redistricting process.

During the hearing, Biden read verbatim from a memo highlighting racist language used by lawmakers to support the redistricting plan. “We already have a n—– mayor, we don’t need any more n—–big shots!” Biden quoted a lawmaker as saying, before arguing that Reynolds had ignored racist comments by lawmakers and allowed them to gerrymander Louisiana’s congressional districts in a way that underrepresented Black residents.

There was no ruling from the bench by Judge Cannon in the hearing on whether special counsel Jack Smith had been appointed illegally.

At the end of the hearing, Cannon asked the prosecution a number of questions, such as “Did the attorney general have any oversight role in seeking the indictment?”

Prosecutor James Pearce declined to answer, citing policy, according to NBC.

Cannon then asked why there would be a problem answering if Garland signed off on the indictment in the classified documents case, regardless of what the policy is.

Pearce responded that he didn’t want to appear to be hiding something, but still said it would be against policy to answer such a question.

Three outside groups also presented their cases on Friday.

Before court ended for the day, Cannon asked both the defense and the prosecution to file supplemental materials, such as case law and statutory citations, but to limit filings to five pages.

In 2022, the FBI conducted a raid on Mar-a-Lago, finding more than 100 classified documents that had not been handed back to the government despite several requests and subpoenas being issued. He was subsequently hit with dozens of charges alleging that he withheld the classified documents after leaving the White House, then obstructed the federal governement’s investigation. Trump has pleaded not guilty.

Former president Donald Trump blew out President Joe Biden in fundraising in May. According to campaign filings, Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised only $85 million in May, while Trump and the Republican National Committee raised $141 million.

Prosecutors on Friday urged the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to uphold provisions of a gag order that bar him from criticizing jurors and court staff, while agreeing to lift a restriction on his public statements about trial witnesses.

In court papers filed Friday, prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office argued that portions of the gag order remained necessary given the Republican former president’s “singular history of inflammatory and threatening public statements,” as well as efforts by his supporters to “identify jurors and threaten violence against him.”

“Since the verdict in this case, defendant has not exempted the jurors from his alarming rhetoric that he would have ‘every right’ to seek retribution as president against the participants in this trial as a consequence of his conviction because ’sometimes revenge can be justified,” the filing states.

The gag order, issued in March, prohibited Trump from making or directing others to make public statements about witnesses, jurors and others connected to the case. It does not restrict comments about the judge, Juan M. Merchan, or Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office prosecuted the case.

On Friday, Judge Cannon questioned Trump attorney Emil Bove on what he meant by that Smith’s appointment amounted to a “shadow government”.

“That sounds very ominous. But what do you really mean?” she asked, according to CNN.

Instead of answering the question, Bove went on to argue that Smith was improperly appointed. He added that there should be another hearing on the matter, including testimony regarding the relationship between Garland and Smith.

When Cannon said there are regulations Smith must follow, Bove replied that Smith wasn’t reporting to anyone.

Prosecutor James Pearce said Garland could fire Smith at “this very moment.” He noted later that Garland doesn’t look over each decision Smith makes.

Sheindlin, who is originally from Brooklyn, said that she had not been in favor of Trump’s Manhattan prosecution.

“I would be happier as someone who owns property in Manhattan, if the district attorney of New York County would take care of criminals who are making it impossible for citizens to walk in the streets and use the subway, to use his efforts to keep those people off the street, than to spend 5 million or ten million of taxpayers money trying Donald Trump on this nonsense,” she said.

Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus argued that the case from state prosecutors was filed in the wrong county.

Attorneys for the six defendants argued that the case should have been brought in Carson City, where they approved false certificates certifying Trump’s electors, or in Douglas County, where those documents were mailed.

Nevada’s Attorney General Aaron Ford is expected to appeal the decision.

Donald Trump has declared his “love” for the Ten Commandments and has called for them to be displaye in schools and other places in an all-caps, late-night post on his social media platform, Truth Social.

Louisiana is the only state in the country with such a requirement however it appears that it is one that the former president would like to expand.

Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday that Sean O’Brien, the General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters will speak at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“Our GREAT convention will unify Americans and demonstrate to the nation’s working families they come first. When I am back in the White House, the hardworking Teamsters, and all working Americans, will once again have a country they can afford to live in and be respected around the world. Sean, I look forward to seeing you represent the Teamsters in Milwaukee,” Trump wrote.